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it was not on purpose, but regardless it was still done. a child, maybe around 10-12, had asked her to bring back their caretaker. shihime brought her elementals, but she wasn't expecting the force needed to bring someone back, as it was still the early days of her craft -
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it's pretty much radio silence. she's got that normal brain unfortunately, so she can just shut her head off when she wants
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she's like a cat, where her need for affection is dependent entirely on her mood. but she listens, she observes, she'll bring you gifts like a crow. so if that's your thing, she's your girl
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red sex, restrung version by vessel & rakhi singh. it just feels so wrong, like something bad is going to happen. like you're the prey animal being hunted, & there's nothing you can do about it.
which is truly how it feels to make shihime angry.
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to bring back a life, one must take another. when sprites don't have aether to offer, shihime will use a willing (& occasionally unwilling) sacrifice.
this method of necromancy is, of course, more brutal. the souls must be equal to one another - so typically family, or lovers
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yes, she would own hehe. she would have wasted so much money just to get hehe
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she has a lot of titles, but the most common is bone witch. rumors of her necromancy spread fast, thus the people needed something that wasn't her name - shihime. because unlike in kugane, they didn't know that was already a title
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typically, the followers of the death cult are buried in catacombs under kugane
however since shihime is NOT a practitioner is instead indebted to the deity for going against his domain, she'll be buried with the elements, which is exactly what she wants. return her bones to the soil
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she's complicated to love. it doesn't come easily for her, & given her off putting aura, it's hard for others to love her. even in an au where shihime /does/ find love with vaska it takes them both years, but they're cut from the same freak cloth
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shihime is a virgo, & phen is a libra! i'm a leo so they're somewhat opposites of me, but my chart has a lot of earth in it so maybe not? who knows it's a mystery
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universally, the necromancy. she's ostracized for it, yet also sought for it. it's agreed by all magic users that necromancy is the most unethical form of healing, as the person has to be dead for days for it to work - thus ripping them from the life stream back into their body --
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gen z stare
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the necromancy is a pretty big thing 😭 in the faux wol au, she's managed to resurrect an entire battlefield successfully, but it also knocked her into a month long coma
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at most, she'll say shit, but that's the only curse she really uses & even then it's very rarely. it's not really for any reason other than she doesn't think it's necessary to swear
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any sort of confrontation, specifically with men. this can be through possession or a man yelling at her, but she'll lash out as hard as her soul can possibly let her
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getting a c/mm of her like this as we speak
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shihime was originally supposed to be a seer that could summon the dead, but ultimately i decided that she had too many powers. necromancy is already extremely strong, especially because how she does it binds the soul to her, so i just let go of the whole seer thing
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very good, she can be manipulative if she wishes. but humans are so fragile, the only time she considers lying is if they’re already broken, if only to save them from shattering
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wanted to make myself a little visual of how shihime specifically would see normal aether vs how her own would appear to someone with aethersight like her. the face is not on purpose, it just cracks & oozes out continuously
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dark purples, reds, blues, anything resembling a fresh bruise. usually something japanese inspired – not just “asian,” it has to be japanese. lots of blacks with lace, if she can
her favorite color is a dark blue, like the sky when the moon is out
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+ loyal
+ diligent
+ clever
- self-destructive
- apathetic
- indulgent
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cannot decide between these two
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to her, death is settling down. so yes, eventually she’d like to. however due to her punishment, she can’t die. so she’s stuck perpetually here
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complicated. her mother wanted to keep shihime locked up & hidden forever, to be a doll on her shelf, a trophy she could admire when she wished.
her father however wanted to sell her into marriage so they could have money. neither of them talked to her, only of her.
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for when she starts getting annoyed, she’ll start organizing random objects. luckily she’s usually in her caravan so it doesn’t look as weird, but she will arrange rocks if she’s annoyed enough.
anger though, she does get spikey. her tail will spike out more, & her scales will jut out
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the moon suits her well dare i say
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in all honesty, her desire to be /better/ than the gods
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extremely Not Very. she’s like a cat, when she wants affection it’s very rare & usually with one specific person (her older brother kaiyo usually got the brunt of it)
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shihime's healing is different than any other healing i've described. while most of how i write healing is like reversing the wound, there's usually limited pain. for shihime, however, it's like getting stabbed again until it closes itself up. it's not beautiful, it's really painful
